spencer



(ModeL) 2Sheets-Sheet 1.

0.1.SPEMER. Lamp.

No. 236,190. Patented Jan. 4, I881.

"PETERS. PHOTD-UTHDGRAFHER, WASHINGTON. D Q

(ModeL) 2 Sheets-She'et 2.

' 0. F. SPENCER.

' Lamp. I No. 236,190. Pate-nt ed Jan 4,1881.

N-PETERS, PMQTU-LITHOGRAPNEn. WASHINGTON. D. C.

A the NITED STATES PATENT FFICEO CHARLES F. SPENCER, OF ROCHESTER, NEWYORK, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO HENRY S. BALLOU, OF SAME PLACE.

LAMP.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 236,190, dated January4, 1881. Application filed March 6, 1880. (ModeL) To all whom it mayconcern Be it known that I, CHARLES F. SPENCER, of the city ofRochester, county of Monroe, and Stateof New York, have invented acertain new and useful Improvement in Lamps and I do hereby declare thatthe following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same,reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which Figure l isan elevation of the lamp. Fig.

2 is a similar view, but looking at right angles to Fig. 1.

My improvement relates to what is known as combined stand and bracketlamps.

The invention consists in the peculiar construction of the standard ofthe lamp, as hereinafter shown and described.

In the drawings, A represents the base. B is the lamp-body, and O is thestandard which forms the subject of my invention. This standard is madein the form of a double bow or loop, having two side projections, a a,lying in the same plane, opposite each other, and forming handles. Theprojection of these parts is such as to throw the shade or globe clearof the wall when the lamp is attached to the wall as a bracket-lamp. Thelampbody rests in a depression or bend in the top of the standard, andmay be secured in place 0 by a screw or otherwise. The bottoms of thearms forming the standard are. attached rigidly to the base.

The standard may be made separate from base and attached thereto, or itmay be 3 5 cast or otherwise formed solid with the base.

In each of the handles a. a is formed a vertical slot, 1), through whichmay be inserted the head of the hook c, for attaching the lamp to thewall, as shown in Fig. 1.

By the means above described handles are 40 formed at the side of thelamp, by which the lamp is conveniently grasped and carried, and thesehandles serve the additional purpose of attachments for hanging the lampupon the wall. By this means, also, the ordinary 5 straight standard isavoided, which standard requires extra attachments to extend the hearingto the wall, and by this means a good deal of expense is avoided.

A single handle of the kind above described might be made effective butby the use of two it can be grasped from either side and hungeither sideout.

The concavity in the top of the standard is such as to embrace thecylinder forming the lamp-body and give it afirm seat.

Having thus described my invention, I do not claim, broadly, springs orstraps forming the standard; nor do I claim, broadly, slots in thestandard; but

'What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-- In alamp, the standard consisting of acontinuous strap forming a handle oneach side, provided with slots for hanging on a hook or stud on a wall,and having a concavity in the top for receiving the cylindrical lamp, asherein shown and described.

In witness whereof I have hereunto signed my name in the presence of twosubscribing witnesses.

R. F. Oscoon, J AOOB SPAHN.

MMMWNTWMM

